The methodology followed consists in the reading of texts explained by referring to their present-day context as well as to the use they make of the various traditions into which they are inscribed. (Note the tension between “present-day context” and “traditions”) We will try to develop our own interpretation of these resources in light of the changes presently affecting the global community. 
Objectives:

• To have a general understanding of the styles and issues at the core of Asian theologies;
• To appreciate Biblical resources on violence and peace and the various ways in which such resources may be interpreted;
• To understand the mode of reasoning characteristic of contextual theologies;
• To engage into cross-cultural hermeneutics;
• To apply the insights gained in the course to interpret situations.

The video will be uploaded to our website, and the password will be given after registration.

Participants can email their questions and comments to Prof. Vermander through the Centre for Catholic Studies <catholic@cuhk.edu.hk>
 

“Visibility is a trap.” These words by Michel Foucault have continuously inspired me to question the oft-proclaimed virtues of openness, transparency, and emancipation. To paraphrase Tan Jia’s recent work, perhaps we should look for ways of hiding, for disguise, for masquerade, rather than ways of showing and displaying. In my talk, I want to question the limits of invisibility, or, better, probe into the politics of (in)visibility. I will engage with two recent exhibitions in Hong Kong, first, Myth Makers – Spectrosynthesis III in Tai Kwun (24 December 2022 – 10 April 2023), showcasing queer art from Asia and its diasporas. Second, Beijing-based artist Wang Tuo’s The Second Interrogation, as shown in the Blindspot Gallery (21 March – 6 May 2023), a video work reflecting the artists “observations and reflections on cultural censorship in the art world in China in recent years” (gallery statement). Both shows play with the notion of visibility and invisibility, at times in an explicit manner. For example, due to regulations regarding nudity, parts of works, or a whole film, had to be blocked in Myth Makers. Wang Tuo toys around with the performative role of both artist and censor, rendering a clear division between both at best blurred. Both shows not only allow a reflection on the politics of (in)visibility; they also attest to a second point I like to make: it is often in the context of limitations and regulations that creative practices can and do unfold.

Moderator:
Prof. Pang Laikwan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Guest Speaker:
Prof. Jeroen de Kloet, University of Amsterdam
Jeroen de Kloet is Professor of Globalisation Studies at the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He is also a professor at the State Key Lab of Media Convergence and Communication, Communication University of China in Beijing. Publications include a book with Anthony Fung Youth Cultures in China (Polity 2017), and the edited volumes Boredom, Shanzhai, and Digitization in the Time of Creative China (with Yiu Fai Chow and Lena Scheen, Amsterdam UP 2019) and Trans-Asia as Method: Theory and Practices (with Yiu Fai Chow and Gladys Pak Lei Chong, Rowman and Littlefield, 2019). Forthcoming, with Yiu Fai Chow and Leonie Schmidt, is ‘It’s My Party’ – Tat Ming Pair and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Music in Hong Kong (Palgrave). See also http://jeroendekloet.nl

本科生畢業展—《趕在漪淪散去前》（‘Before It Billows Out’）

再精密的鐘錶儀器，也只能量度世俗的時間；
再快速的機械文明，也換不來信念的救贖。
我們否定生命是技術驗證的結果，意義本該是個體自我創造的。
作為，最後一圈漪輪散去前的三十一位見證者們，大地泛起的波，因知情太多的主體，
而需為此種超額的、多餘的知識親自付上代價。每顆自我（ego）立於大海之巔，虔誠地
迎接不再畏高的意識，完成造物主的使命。

2023年度中大藝術系本科畢業作品展以《趕在漪淪散去前》為題，本屆畢業生面朝信念
沉寂的現世，將創作喻為水滴，力量雖微，卻能在死水中泛起新一圈的漣漪，賦予社會
善惡的二面體。他們強調當下的逼切性，以藝術行動恪守着對世界感知的自我訓練。

展覽日期：二零二三年六月二日至六月十八日
展覽地點：香港中文大學本部文物館展廳一
開放時間：星期一至六上午十時至下午五時（逢星期四休館）；星期日及公眾假期下午一時至五時

Speaker 
Ziqiang Bai, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Waldemar Brys, University of New South Wales, Australia
Ray Cheung Hung Sang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Steve Coutinho, Muhlenberg College, USA
Chris Fraser, University of Toronto, Canada
Herbert Xiangnong Hu, Fudan University, China
Yong Huang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Hong-ki Lam, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Jung Lee, Northeastern University, USA
Eske Mollgaard, The University of Rhode Island, USA
Robert Tsaturyan, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
David Wong, Duke University, USA

Jane will further pursue their Master of Philosophy in Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics at the University of Oxford. They were honoured and excited about being awarded with this scholarship, “I aspire to become a linguist and study language-related interdisciplinary subjects, and I am very happy to have the support from the scholarship to further pursue a path in the academia. I look forward to studying at Oxford and connecting with new people who share my passions.”

More than that, they were grateful for being a CUHK Linguistics student which provided them a positive learning experience during the undergraduate studies. “The curriculum not only ensured a solid foundation in the basics of general linguistics but also covered a wide range of topics and allowed me substantial freedom to focus on the areas I am interested in on more advanced levels. The teachers were inspiring, and, when reached out for advice on my studies and career planning and opportunities to develop my research experience, they did not hesitate to offer them to me. Especially, Prof Lawrence Cheung (my academic advisor) and Prof Peggy Mok (supervisor for my final year research project) offered me a lot of great advice along the way.”

The Faculty together with our dedicated teaching team are the strongest backbone for our students. We help train not only new generations of scholars in different fields, but also imaginative learners. We always believe in our students’ great potentials to reach high achievement, and will continue to provide inspiring and professional advice to benefit their personal, academic and career growth.

Jane will start a new page of life and is ready to take up the new challenges. We wish them a fruitful and rewarding journey at Oxford!

To learn more about CUHK Linguistics, please visit http://ling.cuhk.edu.hk/

About The Esther Yewpick Lee Millennium Scholarship
This Scholarship is exclusively offered to CUHK final-year students or graduates of undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes. The scholar will be fully sponsored to read for a postgraduate or a second Bachelor’s degree for a maximum of three years, covering the University and College fees at Oxford and personal allowance which amounts to over HK$1 million.

宋明以來常見各類鑲嵌銅器，以仿古為主，亦不乏新制。因鮮有確切紀年考古出土品，對傳世器斷代往往莫衷一是，且常見有寬泛定為宋至明代，頗可商榷。本次報告旨在通過文獻疏理、風格排比、並參照其他材質及域外文物，重新檢視仿古鑲嵌銅器的發展演進脈絡，探究其藝文內涵。
 

講者
陸鵬亮博士（紐約大都會藝術博物館亞洲藝術部中國藝術研究員）
Dr. Lu Pengliang (Associate Curator of Chinese Decorative Arts of The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
陸鵬亮，紐約巴德研究所（Bard Graduate Center）藝術史博士，2002至2008年，供職於上海博物館展覽部。2012年至今，在紐約大都會藝術博物館亞洲藝術部工作，現任中國藝術研究員。在兩館工作期間參與及主持策辦多個中外藝術特展。個人研究方向主要集中於宋元明清時期銅器研究，并著力不同材質工藝文物的交流互鑑，在中外期刊與學術研討會廣泛發表銅器、琺瑯、陶瓷、漆器等各類論文。

“I am formally retired, and as a teacher, I sometimes worry about whether my teaching is still relevant to students almost fifty years younger than me, in my GE classes "Meanings of Life," "Culture of Hong Kong," "Globalization and Culture," and "Humans and Culture."  The fact that students still seem to learn from and enjoy my classes makes me enormously happy, as does receiving this exemplary teaching award, because it shows I'm not irrelevant quite yet!  Thank you to CUHK for recognizing what I am doing in the General Education classroom, and above all, thank you to my students, for being so enthusiastic, diligent, and curious about the world”, shared by Professor Mathews.

Huge congratulations to Professor Gordon Mathews, Research Professor & Emeritus Professor of the Department of Anthropology, CUHK for being awarded the SCGE Exemplary Teaching Award in General Education 2022 from the University. The books he has written include Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong, The World in Guangzhou: Africans and Other Foreigners in South China’s Global Marketplace, and Life After Death Today in the United States, Japan, and China, among others.

Moderator: Prof. Tobias Brandner
Professor and Associate Director (External Affairs) of Divinity School of Chung Chi College, CUHK
 

Speaker 
Professor Graham Reside
Executive Director, Cal Turner Program in Moral Leadership for the Professions
Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University Divinity School

This lecture will explore over Pure Land doctrine between a Japanese Jōdo Shinshū missionary to China named Ogurusu Kōchō 小栗栖香頂 (1831–1905) and the renowned lay Buddhist and publisher Yang Wenhui 楊文會 (or Yang Renshan 楊仁山, 1837–1911). Yang had received a copy of Hōnen’s Senchaku hongan nenbutusu shū 選択本願念佛集 (Anthology on the Nenbutusu of the Select Original Vow). Finding its interpretation of Pure Land objectionable, he wrote some comments on it and sent it back to Japan, where it came to Ogurusu’s attention. Ogurusu defended Hōnen’s teaching with a work called Nianfo yuantong 念佛圓通. Yang responded with a critique called Ping Xiaosuqi nianfo yuantong 評小栗栖香頂 (Critique of Ogusuru’s Nianfo Yuantong). Ogurusu was by then too ill to respond further, so a fellow missionary, Ryūsen 龍舟 (1861–1931), took up Yang’s objections in a 1901 work called Nenbutsu entsū tudusen 念佛圓通続貂 (Continuation of Nianfo Yuantong). With that the exchange ended. This lecture will present a summary of the historical background of this controversy, reviews some of its arguments on self-power and other-power with specific reference to the generation of bodhicitta, and offers some conclusions.
 

Speaker 
Prof. Charles B. Jones
The Catholic University of America

Charles B. Jones was born in North Carolina in 1957, but grew up in a military family that moved frequently both within the U.S. and abroad. He graduated from Morehead State University (Kentucky) in 1980 with a degree in music, and went on to earn the Master of Theological Studies cum laude from the Divinity School of Duke University in 1988 and the Ph.D. in History of Religions from the University of Virginia in 1996.

Since joining the faculty of the STRS in the fall of that year, he has pursued research in the history of Chinese Buddhism and the Christian practice of interreligious dialogue. He has also taught courses for Virginia Theological Seminary and the Smithsonian Associates, and recorded a set of lectures on theories in religious studies for The Teaching Company. He has consulted with the U.S. Department of State, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and was a Fulbright scholar in Taiwan during the 2004-05 academic year.

Link to ZOOM Meeting: https://cuhk.zoom.us/j/91060241050
ZOOM ID: 910 6024 1050